Michael Ruppert R.I.P. (1951-2014)

According to the Napa Valley Register, Michael Ruppert died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound this past Sunday.  Ruppert was the author of Crossing the Rubicon:  The American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil (New Society Publishers, 2004) and one of the earliest and most outspoken critics of how the events of 9/11 were being interpreted by mainstream media.  

The Centre for Research on Globalization has paid tribute to Ruppert's memory by reprinting this 2001 interview with Ruppert that was conducted by Kellia Ramores and Bonnie Faulkner only four weeks after 9/11.  Here's a brief excerpt:

Below is the transcript of Michael Ruppert’s interview on Guns and Butter, which was aired on KPFA, one month after the tragic events of 9/11. Ruppert was first to reveal the forbidden truth: speculative trade on airline stocks based on foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks.

The CIA’s Wall Street connections; with Michael C. Ruppert on Guns and Butter: The Economy Watch with Kellia Ramares and Bonnie Faulkner

FAULKNER: On September 29, The San Francisco Chronicle reported that investors had yet to collect more than $2.5 million in profits they made trading options in the stock of United Airlines before the Sept 11 terrorist attacks. The uncollected money raises suspicions that the unidentified investors had advance knowledge of the attacks. The securities and exchange commission is investigating high levels of short sales and purchases of “put” options, on the stocks of United Airlines and American Airlines in the three business days before the attacks. Short sales and put options are bets that a stock will fall in price.

Meanwhile, the Interdisciplinary Center, a counter-terrorism think tank headed by former Israeli intelligence officers, has issued a report on Osama bin Laden’s finances, saying insiders profited by nearly $16 million dollars on transactions involving the two airlines and the investment banking firm Morgan Stanley, which occupied 22 floors of the World Trade Center. And that report excluded other unusual trading activity involving insurance companies with significant exposure to damage claims resulting from the attacks.

Joining us by phone from Southern California is Michael C. Ruppert. Ruppert is a former Los Angeles Police Department field officer and narcotics investigator whom the CIA twice tried to recruit.

In the course of investigations in the mid 1970s, he came across information the CIA was trading drugs in order to fund covert operations. He was forced out of the LAPD in November 1978 after being shot at and threatened for speaking out about CIA drug activity.

At a Town Hall meeting on November 15, 1996, Ruppert publicly confronted then-CIA director John Deutsch with information about three specific CIA drug operations. The confrontation led to an invitation to appear before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, where he spoke and presented written evidence concerning the CIA’s infiltration of and illegal relationships with a number of police departments throughout the country.

Michael Ruppert publishes “From The Wilderness,” a magazine which deals with the effects of illegal covert operations on our society.

He’s here today to discuss his latest article for that magazine . . . about the CIA’s knowledge of, and connections to, the suspect trading that occurred in the days prior to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Michael Ruppert, welcome to “Guns and Butter: The Economy Watch.”

RUPPERT: Good to be here.

FAULKNER: Good to have you. Do you think the CIA had advance knowledge of the attacks? Did they know a specific attack was coming?

RUPPERT: I am absolutely convinced that the Central Intelligence Agency had complete and perfect foreknowledge of the attacks, down to date, time place and location, yes.

FAULKNER: Tell us how the CIA monitors the stock market.

RUPPERT: Well, I have written several stories about this over the years. One of the primary functions of the Central Intelligence Agency by virtue of its long and very close history of relationships with Wall Street, I mean to the point where the current executive vice president of the New York Stock Exchange is a retired CIA general counsel, has had a mandate to track, monitor, all financial markets worldwide, to look for anomalous trades, indicative of either economic warfare, or insider currency trading or speculation which might affect the US Treasury, or, as in the case of the September 11 attacks, to look for trades which indicated foreknowledge of attacks like we saw.

One of the vehicles that they use to do this is a software called Promis software, which was developed in the 1980s, actually 1979, by Bill Hamilton and a firm called INSLAW, in [the] Washington D.C. area. And Promis is very unique for two reasons: first of all, it had the ability to integrate a wide range of databases using different computer languages and to make them all into one readable format. And secondly, in the years since, Promis has been mated with artificial intelligence to even predict moves in markets and to detect trades that are anomalous, as a result of those projections. So, as recently as last year, I met with members of the RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] national security staff, who came down to Los Angeles where I am, who are investigating stolen applications of Promis software and its applications, and we reconfirmed at that time that, not only the US, but Israel, Canada, and many other countries use Promis-like software to track real-time trades in the stock markets to warn them of these events….

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To read this entire interview, click HERE.

To read Kerena Todorov's Napa Valley Register article, "Sheriff: Author Michael Ruppert Dies of Self-inflicted Gunshot Wound," click HERE.

If you're interested in pursuing the most cutting-edge information regarding the events of 9/11, I recommend this documentary recently produced by an organization called Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth:  9/11 Explosive Evidence--Experts Speak Out (Final Edition).  Click HERE for further information about this documentary.

Dead Bankers and CIA Agents Are Raining from the Sky

From Bill Gertz's 4-4-14 Washington Free Beacon article entitled "CIA Official Dies in Apparent Suicide":

"A senior CIA official has died in an apparent suicide this week from injuries sustained after jumping off a building in northern Virginia, according to sources close to the CIA.

"CIA spokesman Christopher White confirmed the death and said the incident did not take place at CIA headquarters in McLean, Va.

“'We can confirm that there was an individual fatally injured at a facility where agency work is done,' White told the Washington Free Beacon. 'He was rushed to a local area hospital where he subsequently died. Due to privacy reasons and out of respect for the family, we are not releasing additional information at this time.'

"A source close to the agency said the man who died was a middle manager and the incident occurred after the man jumped from the fifth floor a building in Fairfax County."

(To read Gertz's entire story, click HERE.)

It's important to note that this tragedy occurs only a few weeks after a foreign exchange trader also took a fatal plunge from the top of a thirty-story building in Hong Kong, just one in a series of recent "suicides" among investment bankers linked to JP Morgan.  (Click HERE to read the entire Bangkok Post news report about the premature death of 33-year-old Li Jie.) 

Just a few weeks before Jie's death, 39-year-old banker Gabriel Magee ostensibly threw himself from the roof of JP Morgan's headquarters in London.  (To read further about the suspicious circumstances surrounding Magee's death, click HERE.)

It's also important to note the not-so-secret ties between JP Morgan and the Central Intelligence Agency.  Consider this information from Ron Baitley-Simens' 3-16-14 Neon Nettle article entitled "JP Morgan/CIA Links Raise the Stakes Over Suspicious Banker Deaths":

"Late last year, the U.S. magazine Newsweek reported on the close links between JP Morgan, which has been proven to have been involved in all sorts of financial fraud in recent months, and the National Resources Division, a reported front organisation for the CIA.  

"Describing the group as the 'biggest little CIA shop you’ve never heard of', [Newsweek reporter, Jeff] Stein went on to say that NRD operatives 'cultivate their own sources on Wall Street, [...] recruiting companies to provide cover for CIA operations abroad.'

"[Stein's article] cited the case of Thomas Higgins, a Managing Director and Global Head of Operational Control for JP Morgan.  Higgins was previously the Senior Officer and Station Chief in the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, a component of which is the National Resources Division. 

"Higgins’ bio is printed in past brochures of the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation, where Higgins is listed with his JP Morgan job title, former CIA job title, and as a member of the Foundation’s Board of Directors for 2013.

"According to a LinkedIn profile, Bud Cato, a Regional Security Manager for JP Morgan Chase, worked for the CIA in foreign clandestine operations from 1982 to 1995; then went to work for The Coca-Cola Company until 2001; then back to the CIA as an Operations Officer in Afghanistan, Iraq and other Middle East countries until he joined JP Morgan in 2011.

"The Newsweek article quotes sources who say that JP Morgan's 'intimate relations with top U.S. corporate executives willing to have their companies fronting for the CIA invites trouble at home and abroad.'

"It may be that at least one of the banker deaths at JP Morgan is the 'trouble' resulting from those 'intimate relations'."

To read Baitley-Simens' entire article, click HERE.  

To read Jeff Stein's 11-14-13 Newsweek article, "The Biggest Little CIA Shop You've Never Heard Of," click HERE.     

       

Tessa B. Dick & Robert Guffey on YouTube

Back in the fall of last year, Tessa B. Dick (wife of the late Philip K. Dick) interviewed me on her radio show, ANCIENT OF DAYS.  Over the course of an information-packed hour we discussed conspiracies of all sorts:  mind control, gangstalking, science fiction as propaganda, psychological warfare, alien abductions, black helicopters, Men-in-Black, new breakthroughs in invisibility technology, and Phil Dick himself.  That interview is now available to be heard in its entirety on YouTube.  To journey back in time to October 7, 2013, simply click HERE (I enter the show at around 26:00).


By the way, Tessa Dick is the author of two thought-provoking memoirs, PHILIP K. DICK:  REMEMBERING FIREBRIGHT and MY LIFE ON THE EDGE OF REALITY.  You can purchase these books by clicking HERE.  Both are HIGHLY recommended!

The True Purpose of the Edward Snowden Story

"...the slow-drip method of releasing [the Edward] Snowden files is quite useful. It appears to be a smart journalistic strategy, to 'keep the issue before the public so that a true debate about government secrecy and spying can take place.'

"But the debate isn’t effective. The NSA isn’t being curbed. If one of its channels of snooping is cut back, another one will emerge.

"No, the actual op is: keep reminding people they’re being spied on; that will make them more cautious; that will make make them conform in action, speech, and thought.

"That’s the goal. And in that sense, it doesn’t really matter whether the NSA is blanketing the populace with its programs. It only matters that people believe it’s happening."

--Jon Rappoport, "The Story the Washington Post Won't Print," 3-24-14

To read the entirety of this extremely important article, simply click HERE.

Flight 370 and Electronic Warfare

An excerpt from Ted Jeory’s 3-19-14 Express article entitled “Malaysian Plane:  20 Passengers Worked for Electronic Warfare and Military Firm":

A US technology company which had 20 senior staff on board Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 had just launched a new electronic warfare gadget for military radar systems in the days before the Boeing 777 went missing.

Freescale Semiconductor, which makes powerful microchips for industries including defence, released the powerful new products to the American market on March 3.

Five days later, Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 239 people on board including 20 working for Freescale.

Twelve were from Malaysia, while eight were Chinese nationals. 

Freescale’s spokesman Mitch Haws has said: “These were all people with a lot of experience and technical background and they were very important people. 

“It’s definitely a loss for the company.”

Freescale’s shareholders include the Carlyle Group of private equity investors whose past advisers have included ex-US president George Bush Sr and former British Prime Minister John Major.

Carlyle’s previous heavyweight clients include the Saudi Binladin Group, the construction firm owned by the family of Osama bin Laden.

The fact that Freescale had so many highly qualified staff on board the Boeing 777 had already prompted wild conspiracy theories about what might have happened.

The company says they were flying to China to improve its consumer products operations, but Freescale’s fresh links to electronic warfare technology is likely to trigger more speculation and deepen the mystery....

To read Jeory’s entire article, click HERE.

Lucius Shepard R.I.P. (1947-2014)

I just learned a couple of hours ago that Lucius Shepard, one of our greatest short story writers, passed away on March 18 at the age of 66.  If you’ve never read his collections, particularly THE JAGUAR HUNTER and THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, then you’re missing out on some of the most evocative and challenging American short stories of the past thirty years.  Despite the fact that they never appeared in THE YEAR’S BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES (and perhaps that shouldn’t be surprising), many of his tales were finely honed dark jewels:  “The Jaguar Hunter,” “How the Wind Spoke at Madaket,” “The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule,” “A Spanish Lesson,” “The Ends of the Earth,” “The Black Clay Boy,” and “The Scalehunter’s Beautiful Daughter” are all REQUIRED reading.  Rest In Peace, Lucius.    

Ode to Dead Bankers

It’s already well known that in the 1960s and ‘70s a slew of mysterious deaths occurred in the wake of the JFK assassination.  These 100-plus deaths have been chronicled by such investigative journalists as Jim Marrs in his 1989 book Crossfire:  The Plot that Killed Kennedy (see the section entitled “Convenient Death”), a revised and updated edition of which was recently published by Basic Books.  (To purchase a copy of Crossfire, click HERE.)

In the 1980s, two decades after the 11/28/63 murder of 22-year-old actress Karyn Kupcinet (the first of the “convenient deaths” tied to the JFK assassination—leaving aside, of course, the 11/22/63 assassination of Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit and the 11/24/63 ritual sacrifice of Lee Harvey Oswald himself ), another enigmatic necrology suddenly emerged when numerous scientists connected to the Strategic Defense Initiative died or committed suicide under suspicious circumstances.  Jim Keith provides a comprehensive list of these deaths—some of which are quite bizarre indeed, such as the case of Arshad Sharif, a computer analyst and programmer employed by Marconi Defense Systems who wrapped a rope around a tree, the other end around his neck, then drove off in his car at high speed, cutting off his own head—in Chapter Seven of his 1994 book, Casebook on Alternative 3.  (Oddly enough, Jim Keith died only five years after the publication of the aforementioned book during a routine stay in a Nevada hospital after undergoing surgery for a relatively minor knee injury that he sustained while attending the 1999 Burning Man Festival).   

During the first few years of the 21^st century, an unusual amount of microbiologists died under suspicious circumstances not long after the catastrophic events of 9/11 and the beginning of the Persian Gulf War 2.0.  A master list of such deaths has been compiled by researcher Mark J. Harper and is available to be seen on the website of radio host Jeff Rense.  Click HERE to peruse Harper’s rather sobering “Dead Scientists and Microbiologists—Master List.”

In the second decade of the 21^st century, a new—and perhaps even more Machiavellian—pattern has now formed, this one involving the premature deaths of prominent bankers.  Click HERE to read Michael Snyder’s 2/19/14 article entitled “Does the Trail of Dead Bankers Lead Somewhere?”  And click HERE to read John Vibes’ 2/25/14 article entitled “Update:  Trail of Dead Bankers Reaches Arizona, Death Count Is Now at 9.” 

For a far more elegiac outlook on these tragic events, however, click HERE to read Jon Rappoport's outstanding new poem "Look Over Your Shoulder, Banker Man."  Rappoport's brief but chilling poem succeeds in exposing the dark heart of this grisly business better than any factual newspaper account could ever hope to accomplish.